Posts by Johnathan Nightingale

Mike Shaver has posted an update on the situation surrounding our blocking of the .Net Framework Assistant and WPF plugin. In it, he discusses the current state of affairs, the series of events that got us to this point, as … Continue reading

A little over a month ago, I talked about a project we had started to inform users when their plugins were out of date. This is a really important project for us, because old versions of plugins can cause crashes … Continue reading

I wrote last week about a new project we’ve started, informing our users when they’re running out of date versions of popular plugins. We focused our initial efforts on the Adobe Flash Player and now, a week after launch, Mozilla’s … Continue reading

Starting with the upcoming releases of Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14, Mozilla will warn users if their version of the popular Adobe Flash Player plugin is out of date. Old versions of plugins can cause crashes and other stability problems, … Continue reading

People want to know that they are safe when they browse the web. There are important differences between browsers when it comes to security, and so it’s no surprise to see a growing number of groups out there attempting to … Continue reading

Mozilla’s Jesse Ruderman just blogged about a new CSS grammar fuzzer of his, to go along with the JS fuzzer we announced a while ago. Fuzzers are a tool that we’ve found incredibly valuable in the past, and continue to … Continue reading

Issue Researchers have recently found weaknesses in the MD5 hash algorithm, relied on by some SSL certificates. Using these weaknesses, an attacker could obtain fraudulent SSL certificates for websites they don’t legitimately control. Impact to users If a user visits … Continue reading

There has been some interest in the last few days about a recent report from a company called Bit9 about application vulnerabilities. While we’re always happy to see stories that focus on educating our users about security, there are some … Continue reading